Caroline Lamwaka is a freelance journalist and peace researcher. She has covered the civil war and peace process in northern Uganda from 1987 to the present. Since 1999 she has been the chairperson of Gulu Hope for Peace. She is presently a Fellow at the Human Rights Center, the University of California at Berkeley.

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Accord Issue 11: Northern Uganda

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